This is a picture taken in around 1838 by Louis Daguerre of a Paris street scene (Boulevard du Temple), it's famous because it's probably the earliest extant photograph showing a human. The fascinating part is that the street was probably full of people but the exposure of these early plates was so long (10 minutes) that any movement will not have been captured so all the people have essentially been rendered invisible apart from this one chap who is having his shoes shined and would have been relatively still for a while!
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